A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 610
ed towns ofSyria have the stone-built edifices kept theirshape and ordonnance. Figure 1 shows a veryearly Greco-Roman window, probably of thethird century, and we need not doubt that suchopenings as this were somewhat common inRoman country houses. This window is in thesecond story, the larger… … fmmiMki^ Window,Fig. 2: Private HorsE atKhtjebet-Hass. the spanning of the opening by a lintel, and the.supporting of that lintel by uprights, as well asthe apparent serving of pOasters for the samepurpose, are the essential characteristics. Thewindow is here what it became so commonly inlater…
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